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To accommodate their learners, instructors will want to provide scripts and/or captioning for lectures and videos, for example. These scripts are often smaller information packets while lectures or videos are much larger information packets. Instructors may also want to provide rubrics for assignments and assessments and engage learners in helping them to imagine ways to demonstrate progress towards and mastery of learning objectives. These practices also accommodate instructors and learners who find multiple modalities for accessing information and achieving course objectives essential to their learning.
Follow these steps Steps to create content that is accessible to all students :
Run the built-in accessibility checkers as you create Word Docs, PDFs, and/or PowerPoints and correct the errors and warnings as you work.
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- Click the “File” tab in the Ribbon to open the Backstage View.
- In the “Info” section, click the “Check for Issues” drop-down button in the “Inspect Document” area.
- Then click the “Check Accessibility” command to launch the task pane.
- A list of “Errors” and/or “Warnings” may appear.To check accessibility of pdfs:
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- Choose Tools > Accessibility. ...
- In the secondary toolbar, click Full Check. ...
- In the Report Options section, select options for how you want to view the results. ...
- Select a page range if you prefer to check individual pages of a document. ...
- Select one or more of the Checking Options.
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are available by clicking here.
Some essential considerations:
- Include only necessary and content-driven images and add the alternative descriptions as you work
- Use captioning when you record lectures and edit for accuracy. You can edit captioning in recordings you upload into YouTube.
- Use an accessible font, like Veranda
- Use high contrast colors
- Avoid using underlining and bold to make a point
- Provide links to online resources and/or order a digital course packet for hard to come by resources instead of scanning and uploading as a PDF
Include only necessary and content-driven images and add the alternative descriptions as you work
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To assess digital content you collect for accessibility:
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